There are a number of things I would suggest depending on you risk level. My company used to get hit all the time from mail viruses and worms but I installed Anomy Mail Tools and we have not had a problem since. Anomy will defang and quarantine attachments based on the extension and it will remove harmful javascript. For files that are common and potentially dangerous like Excel and Word files we use the Kaspersky Antivirus to scan the attachment since a simple extension rule won't work.
Like I said, we have not had any worms get through our mail server. However we did have one person download an attachment from an AOL webmail system. She infected herself and some customers but all her attachments were removed before getting back in to our users.;-) This too can be stopped by using Squid and some rules about downloadable files. There is a simple explanation of this within this nice little security manual from Gentoo
I don't know much about the patch but if I can get similar results then this is huge. Think about the things that you do on your computer that cause you to wait. I bet most of them are associated with disk IO eg booting, loading Word, Mozilla, etc. Now imagine these things taking significantly less time - without a hardware upgrade. Sounds good to me. I'm just waiting to the YMMV disclaimer...
This is simply because there are too many people in the state of Ohio with 25 or more junkers in their lawn who also refuse to pay for auto insurance...
Well if the general public is going to base purchase desisions on half truths, marketing BS and FUD then at least this should give them a hint of balance.
"Do not, I repeat do not force a nontechnical person to use Linux. Your job as a "computer person" that your friends and family trusts is to make the computer experience easier, not harder."
Huh? Isn't this a bit over the top? The guy can do the install and make sure all the right apps are installed and configured. He can get the networking right. He could even install Crossover and Win4Lin (If you have to reboot Windows it might as well take 15 seconds) if necessary.
Sure, Linux may not be able to fit into every fat32 formatted American mind just yet but it is stable and it is easy to use. Aside from the install and the interoperability issues (because MS Office won't play nice) Linux makes a fine desktop. (Yea, I know Linux is quick and easy to install. It's just that Linux installs offer more choices than most. People usually don't like choices when it comes to the computer.)
"But if you force your girlfriend to use Linux, she will probably end up frustrated and hating it (and maybe even hating you)."
Wow, that's a bit harsh. Boot a CD, loose a girlfriend. If that's all it takes then she won't last long anyway. I get your point but I think it applies more to Wal~Mart PCs. Those don't come with Debian hacking boyfriends.
What I really need is an IDE that helps me manage projects but has support for xemacs, gvim or whatever happens to be the best editor today. I know there is another post like this labeled as flaim bait but I think that recreating the editor is a mistake. That's one area where there are fast, mature, time tested, extensible options. We need more IDEs that recognize this and solve the project management issues that exist rather than waste time on the parts that are already done right.
I started my procrastinating career and thus all nighter practice way back in high school. But it wasn't until I saw coverage of the 1986 Race Across America that I saw what is truely required for a multi day push. The RAAM is a bike race starting on the West Coast of America and finishing on the East Coast. Unlike most other races this one isn't broken into stages. It's simply a matter of who can get there first. In 1986 a man named Pete Penseyres set the average speed record which appears to stand today. His secret was sleep management. He had someone observe him while he slept for some time before the race to determine when he would typically experience REM sleep. Then during the race, his support team would pull him off his bike, lay him down in the support van, and let him sleep until his eyes stopped moving. Then they put him on his bike and sent him off for another day of riding. The net result was obviously favorable. He had competition that was actually faster but nobody was as consistent. Those who would have beat him almost always crashed while hallucinating from lack of REM sleep. So those here who are preaching the "3 hour break", I think are on to something.
Don't let the cleaning company set the alarm on you.
I got an adrenaline boost once when a cop pulled his gun and started screaming at me. I had been running around in my socks, checking on a couple of systems. This guy was seriously amped and very pissed when he found out that I didn't deserve a beating. Luckily his partner was calm, and chuckling a little. The cop that was pissed kept asking me what my boss would do if he knew I was working all night. All I could do was laugh and tell him my boss better damn well be pleased. That didn't help the situation...
Asked if he thinks there will ever be a return to "dot-com" culture Rush replied: "Elements will come back. If we can't have elements like that in society we stop challenging our traditional values and when we stop doing that, we stop maturing as a species."
I sure hope this was taken out of context (as many interview comments are) because he won't last in his position for long if he thinks business cares one bit about maturing as a species.
Until the record companies get serious about on-line music and begin to understand what people really want to do with music, this won't work. Where did this $1 per song come from? It's not even competitive with a CD with more songs, cool artwork, built in convenience, etc. The problem is that the record companies don't want to hurt their current channels of distribution - which they have a strangle hold on. There is plenty of room to drop prices for on-line music. Consider a $20 CD. It's likely been through two tiers of distribution, each making a keystone markup. This would mean that the distributor price is about $5. This is what the record company would have to stream the CD for, with everything else being equal, to make the same wild profits that it makes now. I would bet that the transaction costs and bandwidth costs could easily be lower than the production and distribution costs of CDs. So why don't they want to make this happen? Because they already own the current market. Because someone else could easily undercut them at this game. Because they haven't figured out a way to guarantee their dominance in this market...Plus the CD retailers would throw a fit.
You can: A, pay this wildly insane rate that will put you out of business. B, pay this lesser wildly insane rate that will put you out of business. C, hold out for a better deal.
No. It's much simpler than that: Whenever MS pulls something like this, obviously circumventing the agreements, you simply require MS to openly publish the specs. Then you hold them accountable for that spec. Any changes and deviation must be published. Unpublished deviations, intentional or not, result in liability and law suits. Even MS will find a reasonable solution when faced with such a penalty.
Remove KDE and you get xconfig (menuconfig for X).It's not so much about a spiffy end user interface as much as a tool set to accomodate the various interfaces into the future (spiffy and not so spiffy).
From the website
The important changes which come with LinuxKernelConf are a new configuration syntax and a single parser for this language. Multiple utilities can be build on top of this, right now only the old configuration utilities are reimplemented which make use of it. The console utilities ("make config" and "make menuconfig") preserve their old behaviour for all the kernel hackers which loathe drastic behaviour changes.:-) The new X interface ("make xconfig") shows a bit how kernel configuration could be done in the future.
Asked why it has taken Microsoft 25 years to get trustworthy computing into the forefront of its efforts, he said: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently." Admitting this was a flippant answer to a flippant question, Mundie said that chief information officers had only recently begun to demand security, and it is only in the last ten years that Microsoft has attempted to play in the security-requiring worlds of banking payroll and networked systems.
The reality is that M$ sold products that were expected to perform to a base level in terms of quality and security. Because users can't look under the hood so to speak, the quality and security issues didn't emerge until it was too late. Now the customer is screaming for relief and MS is there with its hand out.
Also does it sound like the lines between security and DRM are being intentionally blurred here?
You're missing the point when it comes to trading Phish and Grateful Dead recordings. To most hard core fans the studio recordings are hardly worth listening to. It's the live shows that people are interested in. Many of the fans follow the groups around and collect the shows that they attend and miss. It's a big deal to get the best recordings (if tape is used then the earliest generation too) of all the best shows. The rules of distribution are that you can charge for copying and media but not content. This then creates a bigger market for live performances which can't be pirated anyway.
I think you have to look at what makes math interesting to a person. I personally hated math even though I did OK in math class. To me it was always about some answer that was already known, and some menial task that I had to perform to get it. It was about as much fun as taking out the trash. I think that some find the wonder in math and see right through to the infinite possibilities but most don't. I think that some find that they are, for whatever reason, better at math than others and enjoy it just because they good at it. There are some that just like the mechanics of math. There are people like me who don't realize how cool math is until they find a use for it. That's why I like your baking idea. "We do math because we get cookies from it." I know it sounds flakey but first impressions mean a lot. Maybe she'll be better at math because of it and like it better as a result. I know a number of kids who excelled in math through junior high simply because their parents helped them along through the early stuff. They had the basic mechanics down and were able to see the bigger picture more clearly than kids like me.
I think the best teachers are the ones that understand this and can introduce math from various perspectives. I think that what typically happens, however, is that kids get seperated into good and bad math students. The good ones go to the teacher that loves math and relates well to the good math students. The bad math students go to the teachers that also hate math and thus they continue to hate math forever.
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It's one way of distributing the $15K anyway.
Sun should focus on hardware and integration.
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It seems to me that Sun could move ahead by focusing on hardware and integration. Solaris has some advantages over Linux but Linux has been gaining ground. The future of Sun is not in a closed Solaris. It seems that Sun has the resources to deliver real solutions for large customers - large servers, Linux desktops, diskless Linux terminals, etc. If they focus on making great hardware and making everything play really well together then they stand a better chance of making this work. Frankly the beige box war is over. I hope they see that the next phase is about integration and interoperability. Deliver more function, more security, less headaches, more integration for fewer dollars and you survive the next round. Dell could be a victim of their own success if they don't get this.
I mostly agree with you but there is still room in this world for a Windows clone that works better than Windows - more stable, more secure, more free. There are plenty of distros that are not Windows clones. There are projects that are inventive, that do ground breaking work. I don't blame anyone for trying to fill this particular niche. It's a big niche if you do it just right.
RIAA exists to further the interests (as they perceive them anyway) of the 5 major record labels that created it. The odd thing is that the record labels would rather legislate and sue themselves into further power and existance rather than deliver any sort of value to the customer. It seem to be a loosing strategy to me.
It took how many generations to get the autonomic nervous system to where it is today? And still we have autoimmune disorders and responses like sepsis. I just hope my computer doesn't destroy itself hunting down a virus...
You're not the only one but you need to look harder because you are prejudiced. The Mandrake team had done some fine work and it's not just a desktop distro anymore. I suspect that I'll get flamed by a number of other people who refuse to even try Mandrake but oh well. Mandrake has put together an up to date, secure, easy to install, easy to upgrade, feature rich distribution. That takes a lot of work regardless of the fact that they forked off RedHat some years ago. They have a strong support community as well. Their business model is a bit odd... I don't really think that a company that's based on a "street performer philosophy" should focus much on stock prices. Anyway, although I'm a big fan of Debian, Gentoo and some of the micro disros I still enjoy my Mandrake boxes and I look forward to 9.0.
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Like I said, we have not had any worms get through our mail server. However we did have one person download an attachment from an AOL webmail system. She infected herself and some customers but all her attachments were removed before getting back in to our users. ;-) This too can be stopped by using Squid and some rules about downloadable files. There is a simple explanation of this within this nice little security manual from Gentoo
I don't know much about the patch but if I can get similar results then this is huge. Think about the things that you do on your computer that cause you to wait. I bet most of them are associated with disk IO eg booting, loading Word, Mozilla, etc. Now imagine these things taking significantly less time - without a hardware upgrade. Sounds good to me. I'm just waiting to the YMMV disclaimer...
This is simply because there are too many people in the state of Ohio with 25 or more junkers in their lawn who also refuse to pay for auto insurance...
Well if the general public is going to base purchase desisions on half truths, marketing BS and FUD then at least this should give them a hint of balance.
Huh? Isn't this a bit over the top? The guy can do the install and make sure all the right apps are installed and configured. He can get the networking right. He could even install Crossover and Win4Lin (If you have to reboot Windows it might as well take 15 seconds) if necessary.
Sure, Linux may not be able to fit into every fat32 formatted American mind just yet but it is stable and it is easy to use. Aside from the install and the interoperability issues (because MS Office won't play nice) Linux makes a fine desktop. (Yea, I know Linux is quick and easy to install. It's just that Linux installs offer more choices than most. People usually don't like choices when it comes to the computer.)
"But if you force your girlfriend to use Linux, she will probably end up frustrated and hating it (and maybe even hating you)."
Wow, that's a bit harsh. Boot a CD, loose a girlfriend. If that's all it takes then she won't last long anyway. I get your point but I think it applies more to Wal~Mart PCs. Those don't come with Debian hacking boyfriends.
What I really need is an IDE that helps me manage projects but has support for xemacs, gvim or whatever happens to be the best editor today. I know there is another post like this labeled as flaim bait but I think that recreating the editor is a mistake. That's one area where there are fast, mature, time tested, extensible options. We need more IDEs that recognize this and solve the project management issues that exist rather than waste time on the parts that are already done right.
I started my procrastinating career and thus all nighter practice way back in high school. But it wasn't until I saw coverage of the 1986 Race Across America that I saw what is truely required for a multi day push. The RAAM is a bike race starting on the West Coast of America and finishing on the East Coast. Unlike most other races this one isn't broken into stages. It's simply a matter of who can get there first. In 1986 a man named Pete Penseyres set the average speed record which appears to stand today. His secret was sleep management. He had someone observe him while he slept for some time before the race to determine when he would typically experience REM sleep. Then during the race, his support team would pull him off his bike, lay him down in the support van, and let him sleep until his eyes stopped moving. Then they put him on his bike and sent him off for another day of riding. The net result was obviously favorable. He had competition that was actually faster but nobody was as consistent. Those who would have beat him almost always crashed while hallucinating from lack of REM sleep. So those here who are preaching the "3 hour break", I think are on to something.
Don't let the cleaning company set the alarm on you.
I got an adrenaline boost once when a cop pulled his gun and started screaming at me. I had been running around in my socks, checking on a couple of systems. This guy was seriously amped and very pissed when he found out that I didn't deserve a beating. Luckily his partner was calm, and chuckling a little. The cop that was pissed kept asking me what my boss would do if he knew I was working all night. All I could do was laugh and tell him my boss better damn well be pleased. That didn't help the situation...
Asked if he thinks there will ever be a return to "dot-com" culture Rush replied: "Elements will come back. If we can't have elements like that in society we stop challenging our traditional values and when we stop doing that, we stop maturing as a species."
I sure hope this was taken out of context (as many interview comments are) because he won't last in his position for long if he thinks business cares one bit about maturing as a species.
Until the record companies get serious about on-line music and begin to understand what people really want to do with music, this won't work. Where did this $1 per song come from? It's not even competitive with a CD with more songs, cool artwork, built in convenience, etc. The problem is that the record companies don't want to hurt their current channels of distribution - which they have a strangle hold on. There is plenty of room to drop prices for on-line music. Consider a $20 CD. It's likely been through two tiers of distribution, each making a keystone markup. This would mean that the distributor price is about $5. This is what the record company would have to stream the CD for, with everything else being equal, to make the same wild profits that it makes now. I would bet that the transaction costs and bandwidth costs could easily be lower than the production and distribution costs of CDs. So why don't they want to make this happen? Because they already own the current market. Because someone else could easily undercut them at this game. Because they haven't figured out a way to guarantee their dominance in this market...Plus the CD retailers would throw a fit.
Just wait... Within 12 hours there will be a SourceForge project for this.
You can: A, pay this wildly insane rate that will put you out of business. B, pay this lesser wildly insane rate that will put you out of business. C, hold out for a better deal.
No. It's much simpler than that: Whenever MS pulls something like this, obviously circumventing the agreements, you simply require MS to openly publish the specs. Then you hold them accountable for that spec. Any changes and deviation must be published. Unpublished deviations, intentional or not, result in liability and law suits. Even MS will find a reasonable solution when faced with such a penalty.
Yea, that's what they said about Mozilla.
From the website :-) The new X interface ("make xconfig") shows a bit how kernel configuration could be done in the future.
The important changes which come with LinuxKernelConf are a new configuration syntax and a single parser for this language. Multiple utilities can be build on top of this, right now only the old configuration utilities are reimplemented which make use of it. The console utilities ("make config" and "make menuconfig") preserve their old behaviour for all the kernel hackers which loathe drastic behaviour changes.
Asked why it has taken Microsoft 25 years to get trustworthy computing into the forefront of its efforts, he said: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently." Admitting this was a flippant answer to a flippant question, Mundie said that chief information officers had only recently begun to demand security, and it is only in the last ten years that Microsoft has attempted to play in the security-requiring worlds of banking payroll and networked systems.
The reality is that M$ sold products that were expected to perform to a base level in terms of quality and security. Because users can't look under the hood so to speak, the quality and security issues didn't emerge until it was too late. Now the customer is screaming for relief and MS is there with its hand out.
Also does it sound like the lines between security and DRM are being intentionally blurred here?
You're missing the point when it comes to trading Phish and Grateful Dead recordings. To most hard core fans the studio recordings are hardly worth listening to. It's the live shows that people are interested in. Many of the fans follow the groups around and collect the shows that they attend and miss. It's a big deal to get the best recordings (if tape is used then the earliest generation too) of all the best shows. The rules of distribution are that you can charge for copying and media but not content. This then creates a bigger market for live performances which can't be pirated anyway.
I wonder if this is what ketamine does.
I think you have to look at what makes math interesting to a person. I personally hated math even though I did OK in math class. To me it was always about some answer that was already known, and some menial task that I had to perform to get it. It was about as much fun as taking out the trash.
I think that some find the wonder in math and see right through to the infinite possibilities but most don't. I think that some find that they are, for whatever reason, better at math than others and enjoy it just because they good at it. There are some that just like the mechanics of math. There are people like me who don't realize how cool math is until they find a use for it. That's why I like your baking idea. "We do math because we get cookies from it." I know it sounds flakey but first impressions mean a lot. Maybe she'll be better at math because of it and like it better as a result. I know a number of kids who excelled in math through junior high simply because their parents helped them along through the early stuff. They had the basic mechanics down and were able to see the bigger picture more clearly than kids like me.
I think the best teachers are the ones that understand this and can introduce math from various perspectives. I think that what typically happens, however, is that kids get seperated into good and bad math students. The good ones go to the teacher that loves math and relates well to the good math students. The bad math students go to the teachers that also hate math and thus they continue to hate math forever.
It's one way of distributing the $15K anyway.
It seems to me that Sun could move ahead by focusing on hardware and integration. Solaris has some advantages over Linux but Linux has been gaining ground. The future of Sun is not in a closed Solaris. It seems that Sun has the resources to deliver real solutions for large customers - large servers, Linux desktops, diskless Linux terminals, etc. If they focus on making great hardware and making everything play really well together then they stand a better chance of making this work. Frankly the beige box war is over. I hope they see that the next phase is about integration and interoperability. Deliver more function, more security, less headaches, more integration for fewer dollars and you survive the next round. Dell could be a victim of their own success if they don't get this.
I mostly agree with you but there is still room in this world for a Windows clone that works better than Windows - more stable, more secure, more free. There are plenty of distros that are not Windows clones. There are projects that are inventive, that do ground breaking work. I don't blame anyone for trying to fill this particular niche. It's a big niche if you do it just right.
5 major labels which make up the RIAA
RIAA exists to further the interests (as they perceive them anyway) of the 5 major record labels that created it. The odd thing is that the record labels would rather legislate and sue themselves into further power and existance rather than deliver any sort of value to the customer. It seem to be a loosing strategy to me.
It took how many generations to get the autonomic nervous system to where it is today? And still we have autoimmune disorders and responses like sepsis. I just hope my computer doesn't destroy itself hunting down a virus...
You're not the only one but you need to look harder because you are prejudiced. The Mandrake team had done some fine work and it's not just a desktop distro anymore. I suspect that I'll get flamed by a number of other people who refuse to even try Mandrake but oh well. Mandrake has put together an up to date, secure, easy to install, easy to upgrade, feature rich distribution. That takes a lot of work regardless of the fact that they forked off RedHat some years ago. They have a strong support community as well. Their business model is a bit odd... I don't really think that a company that's based on a "street performer philosophy" should focus much on stock prices. Anyway, although I'm a big fan of Debian, Gentoo and some of the micro disros I still enjoy my Mandrake boxes and I look forward to 9.0.